(David Hayden) If you haven’t heard, there is an update to the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools for Visual Studio. I recommend installing it with the Web Platform Installer. If you would rather download the update directly, you can download it here from Microsoft Downloads.

(Rachel Appel) Today’s web sites need to be user friendly, interactive, and responsive. The date field is of particular interest because at this point in time, users pretty much expect too see nicely formatted dates on the site in general, and datepicker/calendar widgets to interact with when editin

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I started to experiment with Node.js, a server-side Javascript runtime environment. In my example, I created a one-page web service that created an HTTP server and listened for CRUD-style requests on a cached data collection.

(Adrian Alexander) Several articles about trees have already been published on Code Project, such as [Hajek 2004], [Butler 2005], and [Chen 2006]. The code library attached to such an article usually provides a generic TreeNode<T> class that encapsulates a recursive one-to-many relationship and wrap

(Shivprasad Koirala) Some times back I was discussing MVC with one of my Java friends. The talk ended up with a fight trying to prove how one technology is better than other in implementing MVC. For whatever reasons good or bad I was trying to prove that Microsoft technology is the best but…hmm,aaah

(Bipin Joshi) Modern web applications rely heavily on client side scripting to provide rich user experience. To that end ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery are popular choices amongst ASP.NET developers to render rich user interface. These libraries make use of client script physically stored in JavaScript (.j

(Peter Vogel) Welcome to Practical .NET, a new column offering how-to insight and advice for developers working with the flagship Microsoft programming framework. You may be familiar with my Practical ASP.NET column, which I’ve been writing weekly (more or less) on the Visual Studio Magazine Web sit

(Ben Nadel) Over the past few years, Javascript has gone from being a misunderstood, ill-perceived language to being probably one of the most important languages in existence. It is, quite literally, the language that powers the interent; or rather, the Web 2.0 version of the internet.

(Peter Vogel) This is the last Practical ASP.NET column, but just the beginning for some exciting news things going on at Visual Studio Magazine. I’ve had a ball writing this column for the last two and half years. In the process of writing it (and thanks to the many readers who’ve taken the time to

(Stuart Leeks) On a number of occasions I’ve been working with a customer on a scenario where we were adding some Ajax partial rendering support.. All too often demos for this scenario are over-simplified and only render a minimal amount of data. I’m guilty of this too, so I thought I’d try to make